top 10 hacker news stories for today

Technology creates an illusion of control that risks robbing us of meaning

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/editorials/punkt-losing-traction

36 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE

https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190

12 hours ago

917 upvotes – 387 comments

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html

12 hours ago

892 upvotes – 703 comments

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

6 hours ago

690 upvotes – 491 comments

Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment

10 hours ago

659 upvotes – 442 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685

1 day ago

606 upvotes – 326 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7

14 hours ago

603 upvotes – 242 comments

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

https://status.railway.com/?date=20260519

1 day ago

547 upvotes – 348 comments

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/

11 hours ago

502 upvotes – 172 comments

Everything in C is undefined behavior

https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html

18 hours ago

474 upvotes – 618 comments
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